Miscellaneous – Page 2

Latest Java update break vCloud Director 5.1.x upload

By Antti Hurme 28/01/2014 No Comments 1 Min Read

Latest Java update break vCloud Director 5.1.x upload

Found this while browsing todays news and doesn’t harm to have a few extra posts about it. The latest update Java JRE 7u51 added some additional security features which doesn’t like “some” (all) java software written. As such any untrusted java software will refuse to run unless you explicitly allow them to run. To add any site to the trusted list, you have to change the settings from “Configure Java”. Select…

How to manually start vFabric Hyperic appliance

Miscellaneous VMware

By Antti Hurme 20/12/2013 No Comments 1 Min Read

How to manually start vFabric Hyperic appliance

Just a quick note on how to manually start the hyperic server services. This might be needed if the database doesn’t exit/shutdown normally and thus doesn’t start up right the next time. And if the database isn’t running, the Hyperic UI server won’t start. Login to the server with ssh, use the hqamdin password with the root username that you specified during the vFabric Hyperic Appliance deployment, unless you have…

Invalid IPMI MAC Address

Miscellaneous VMware

By Antti Hurme 08/11/2013 No Comments 1 Min Read

Invalid IPMI MAC Address

Encountered an interesting issue when adding Power Management settings on one VMware ESXi 5.1 host today when vCenter Server returned an error message that the BMC MAC Address was invalid. The interesting thing was that I did check the Mac address prior to entering it in VMware vSphere Client and as such should have been correct. After digging trough the vCenter Server logs, located in a vCenter Server 5.1 installation:…

WSUS 3.0 – Client machines replace previous clients in WSUS

Microsoft Miscellaneous

By Antti Hurme 13/08/2013 3 Comments 2 Min Read

In a virtual environment (VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V ….) it’s easy to clone VM’s back and forth, and sometimes it has some unexpected results which aren’t noticed right away. One of these issues that I noticed was with WSUS and VM’s (clients) replaced each other as soon as they talked with the WSUS server. The client machine name, ip and applied updates changed according to the client in question, but the…